Nisa-Anasi language

Anasi
Nisa-Anasi
Bapu
Region Indonesian Papua
Native speakers
unknown (2,500 cited 1987–1993)[1]
Dialects
Anasi
Nisa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
bpo  Anasi
njs  Nisa
Glottolog nisa1239[2]

Nisa and Anasi, also known as Bapu, are dialects of a Papuan language of the Indonesian province of Papua, on the eastern shore of Cenderawasih Bay. Language use is vigorous.

Nisa-Anasi is lexically similar to the East Geelvink Bay languages and presumably belongs in that family.

References

  1. Anasi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nisa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nisa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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